elaia · olive tree

What it means

elaia (ἐλαία) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “olive tree”.

"The Mount of Olives" lies east of Jerusalem.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The tree that bears olives, from which oil is pressed; very common in Israel.
2. The olive, the fruit of the olive tree.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Olives ×11
• olive tree ×2
• olive trees ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×3
• Mark×3
• Luke×4
• Romans×2
• James×1
• Revelation×1

• Matthew 21:1

  And when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

• Matthew 24:3

  And as he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”

• Matthew 26:30

  And after singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

• Mark 11:1

  And when they draw near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sends two of his disciples

• Mark 13:3

  And as he was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew were asking him privately,

• Mark 14:26

  And after singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

• Luke 19:29

  And it happened, as he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount called the Mount of Olives, that he sent two of the disciples,

• Luke 19:37

  And as he was now drawing near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began rejoicing and praising God with a loud voice for all the miracles that they had seen,

• Luke 21:37

  Now during the days he was teaching in the temple, but at night he would go out and spend the night on the mount called the Mount of Olives.

• Luke 22:39

  And going out, he went, according to his custom, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples also followed him.

• Romans 11:17

  But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them and became a sharer in the root of the richness of the olive tree,

• Romans 11:24

  For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree and were grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

• James 3:12

  My brothers, a fig tree cannot produce olives, or a vine figs, can it? Neither can salt water produce sweet water.

• Revelation 11:4

  These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.